The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Thursday, July 10 1997

Letters to the Editor

Troublesome trio

From a purely technical point of view, Prime Minister I.K. Gujral is within his rights to say that the three ministers belonging to Laloo Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal will remain in his ministry. After all, the prerogative of the Prime Minister is such that he can induct anyone of his choice, who need not even be a member of Parliament, into his Cabinet.

Empowering the CBI

The last decade of the century sees the CBI becoming the Indian version of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover in the middle of the century -- with one difference. The FBI became a key component and feared public institution through Hoover's open aggression, while its Indian version gained eminence by the open, meek submission of its spineless Director to his political masters.

Converting to the dependent economy

Thank God the Committee on convertibility of the rupee has laid stiff conditions for its introduction. The anxiousness to move fast on this front, however, arises from a perception that it would help the inflows of foreign investment (FI) and pull our rates of growth to higher levels. That may indeed be true, for now.

Blood on the tracks

Everything but the deity